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SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS AT COOPER UNION

This week, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts will give a talk as part of the IDS Public Lecture series at Cooper Union.

SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS

Tuesday, March 26, at 7 pm.

Frederick P. Rose Auditorium

Cooper Union

40 Cooper Square, New York City.

See Rhodes-Pitt and Charles Gaines in “Freed But Not Free”: Artists at the Venice Biennale Respond to the #BlackLivesMatter Movement.

Also see “Curriculum Year Zero,” a transcription of Rhodes-Pitts’ Creative Time Summit talk at the 2015 Venice Biennale, PARIS LA 14 (Winter 2016): 26–28.

From top: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, photograph by Marcus Werner, courtesy the writer and the photographer; book cover image courtesy Little, Brown.

ON ROY DECARAVA

To celebrate the reissue of The Sweet Flypaper of Life—text by Langston Hughes, photographs by Roy DeCaravaThelma Golden will moderate a panel on the work and Harlem milieu of the late photographer.

Participants include writer A.D. Coleman, filmmaker Radiclani Clytus, professors Leslie Hewitt and John Stauffer, and photographer Hope Wurmfeld.

A RADICAL VISION

ROY DECARAVA’S THE SWEET FLYPAPER OF LIFE panel

Monday, October 29, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm.

Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York City.

Above: Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes, The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

Below: Roy DeCarava, Woman walking above, New York, 1950.  © The Estate of Roy DeCarava, 2018. All rights reserved.

Images courtesy David Zwirner.